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Delete expired data API

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Delete expired data API

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Deletes expired and unused machine learning data.

Request

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DELETE _ml/_delete_expired_data

Prerequisites

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  • If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have manage_ml or manage cluster privileges to use this API. See Security privileges.

Description

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Deletes all job results, model snapshots and forecast data that have exceeded their retention days period. Machine learning state documents that are not associated with any job are also deleted.

Request body

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requests_per_second
(Optional, float) The desired requests per second for the deletion processes. The default behavior is no throttling.
timeout
(Optional, string) How long can the underlying delete processes run until they are canceled. The default value is 8h (8 hours).

Examples

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The endpoint takes no arguments:

DELETE _ml/_delete_expired_data

When the expired data is deleted, you receive the following response:

{
  "deleted": true
}
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